Language: Borna (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Classification

This entry has been retired and is featured here only for bookkeeping purposes. Either
the entry has been replaced with one or more more accurate entries or it has been retired
because it was based on a misunderstanding to begin with.

Borna (Democratic Republic of Congo) [bxx], alternative name Eborna, is listed
in E16/E17 as an Unclassified Southern Bantoid language of the DRC without a
population estimate and without a location. The entry must emanate from
William E. Welmers 1971 :786
since that is the only source mentioning such a language with exactly that much
(lack of) information. Welmers's list, in turn,
derives from sheets of African languages at the US Office of Education started
in 1959 ( William E. Welmers 1971 :761 ). Since these sheets were hand-written
there is considerable likelihood that Borna is a misreading of Boma or eBoma
(the entry for which is Teke-Eboo [ebo]) which would have been extant in the
literature at the appropriate time. See also: Teke-Eboo-Nzikou [ebo].